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Bio: In the five centuries that books have been published, few writers can claim the consistent hold on the public's imagination and patronage that was enjoyed for decades by England's Agatha Christie (1890-1976). Dozens of novels, stories and plays made her the most formidable mystery writer in the world, combining a mastery of suspense and detail with a graceful literary style that also bespoke the stately, well-tended and traditional England most readers love to imagine. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay on the Devon coast, and her father, curiously, was a transplanted New Yorker named Frederick Alvah Miller. (Not that her divided heritage would matter much to Christie later on, for she often seemed to take some pleasure in creating rude, unsavory American characters in her writing.) Her father died when she was quite young, but her mother encouraged her natural inclination to make up stories and write poetry. When unsuccessful studies in Paris put an end to her dream of being an opera singer, young Agatha Miller turned to writing.
She was married in 1914 to Col. Archibald Christie, a handsome pilot who immediately enlisted in the war effort. In his absence, Agatha Christie worked in a hospital dispensary, an experience that would provide her with information (about people and drugs, to begin with) that sowed many of the seeds of her dark and violent stories to come. In her spare time at work, she began writing a mystery. Her first book was published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Some six years later, she hit the bestseller lists for the first time with another Poirot mystery, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Also in 1926, Christie was at the center of a mystery herself. She simply vanished and was thought kidnapped or dead, until she turned up at a resort hotel, registered under the name of Col. Christie's lover. Agatha Christie pleaded temporary amnesia, brought on by stress, and she would never discuss this bizarre incident. It inspired a fictionalized 1979 film entitled Agatha, in which Vanessa Redgrave played the writer.
If the incident did anything positive, it bolstered Christie's reputation with the public, as well as bringing to an end her unhappy marriage. In 1930, she met and married a distinguished archaeologist named Max Mallowan, later knighted for his own achievements. She accompanied Mallowan on his digs in the Middle East, serving as his assistant, and the experiences peppered her writing. Acclaimed and beloved books and plays flowed from Agatha Christie's pen over the next four decades, including whole franchises of novels built around such beloved sleuths as Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Her success was, and continues to be, unprecedented. Movies and TV adaptations renew interest in her boorks, and her play The Mousetrap has been running continuously on the London stage since 1952. In 1971, Agatha Christie was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1954, the Mystery Writers of America established their Grand Master award and, fittingly, made Christie its first recipient.


1. Long [75310 words]The Secret Adversary [Tommy and Tuppence Book 1] by Agatha Christie [Classic Literature]
2. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
4. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]
5. The Big Four by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
6. The Body in the Library [A Miss Marple Mystery] by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
7. The Murder at the Vicarage [A Miss Marple Mystery] by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
8. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
9. Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
10. Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]
  1. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]
2. Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]
3. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
4. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
5. The Moving Finger [A Miss Marple Mystery] by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
6. Long [57139 words]The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Classic Literature]
7. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
8. The Body in the Library [A Miss Marple Mystery] by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]
9. Long [75748 words]The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime/Humor]
10. Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie [Mystery/Crime]

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1 The Secret Adversary [Tommy and Tuppence Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Agatha Christie
  The sinking of the Lusitania is only a taste of the action when Tommy meets Tuppence in World War I England and the two set out together to foil an enemy spy. 1916

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2 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot Investigates [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the rules of detective fiction and made Agatha Christie a household name. There are two things you must do if you know nothing of this book: discuss it with no one, and read it with all speed--because it contains one of the biggest surprises in crime fiction. In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion--and dreadful gossip. There are rumours that she murdered her first husband, that she was being blackmailed, and that her sec... more info>> 2003
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3 Sleeping Murder [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Soon after Gwenda Reed moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeds in dredging up its past. Worse, she feels an irrational sense of terror every time she climbs the stairs.... In fear, Gwenda turns to Jane Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they are to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.... Of note: Agatha Christie wrote Sleeping Murder during World War II and had it placed in a bank vault for ... more info>> 2004
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4 The Body in the Library [A Miss Marple Mystery] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery. [eBook exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Body i... more info>> 2003
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5 The Murder at the Vicarage [A Miss Marple Mystery] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  The murder of Colonel Protheroe--shot through the head--is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour,' is a suspect--the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless Mrs Protheroe; and there is of course her young lover-... more info>> 2003
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6 The Big Four [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man's gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he collapses. The stranger recovers long enough to identify Poirot by name and madly and repeatedly scribble the figure "4" on a piece of paper. Poirot cancels his trip. An investigation is in order. Fortunately, Poirot has the faithful Captain Hastings at his side as he plun... more info>> 2004
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7 The Sittaford Mystery [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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  "You cannot fail to be reminded of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles," comments Christie biographer Charles Osborne of The Sittaford Mystery--in which remote, snowbound Dartmoor is the setting for some strange goings-on, and of a grisly murder. The novel opens at Sittaford House, the grand manor owned by Captain Joseph Trevelyan of the Royal Navy, though he does not live there--preferring the income from renting it out. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm, the occupants of Sittaford H... more info>> 2004
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8 Cards on the Table [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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  Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether... 2003
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9 4.50 From Paddington [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mrs McGillicuddy's friend Jane Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there are no other witnesses, no suspects, and no case--for there is no corpse, and no one is missing. Miss Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent ... more info>> 2004
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10 Poirot's Early Cases [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous "grey cells" so well. Fourteen of the eighteen stories collected herein are narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings--including what would appear to be the earliest Poirot short story, "The Affair at the Victory Ball," which follows soon on the events of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.Two of the stories are narrated by Poirot himself, to Hastings. One, "The Chocolate Box," concerns Poiro... more info>> 2004
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11 The Mystery of the Blue Train [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again -- for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages and eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board.
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12 Miss Marple's Final Cases [A Miss Marple Mystery] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Misss Marple's career. They are: "Sanctuary"; "Strange Jest"; "Tape-Measure Murder"; "The Case of the Caretaker"; "The Case of the Perfect Maid"; "Miss Marple Tells a Story"; "The Dressmaker's Doll"; "In a Glass Darkly"; "Greenshaw's Folly." The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts): "When it all becomes clear as day, the reader can only say "Now why didn't I think of that?" But he never does. Mrs Christie at her be... more info>> 2004
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13 Dumb Witness [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  After an accident on the stairs, Emily becomes convinced that one of her relatives is trying to kill her. On April 17th she writes her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he doesn't receive the letter until June 28th ... by which time Emily is already dead.
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14 Death on the Nile [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything--until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed....
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15 The Mysterious Affair at Styles [MultiFormat]
by Agatha Christie
  The First Hercule Poirot Mystery. One of Dame Agatha Christie's earliest detective novels and one of her very best. There is a new twist or turn on almost every one of its two hundred plus pages. When the heiress of Styles is poisoned there are suspects a plenty, from her avaricious new young husband to her pauper son-in-law to her vengeful daughter-in-law. Enter the man whose head is full of very active "little grey cells" and not a few eccentricities. Here's mystery writing at its best, in a b... more info>> 2004

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16 The Clocks [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name--yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby nava... more info>> 2004
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17 Third Girl [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer--and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family--and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane.
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18 Mrs. McGinty's Dead [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows--what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger...
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19 Appointment With Death [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met
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20 The Moving Finger [A Miss Marple Mystery] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets--a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all of that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, appears to have been driven to suicide. "I can't go on," her final note reads. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict. Was this the work of a poison pen? Or of a poisoner? [eBook exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Moving Finger; 2) "Th... more info>> 2004
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